USA Network's Legal Series Return With New Episodes

USA Network's law-related series Fairly Legal returns Friday, March 16th at 9 p.m., 8 p.m. Central time. Sarah Shahi stars as Kate Reid, a lawyer turned mediator at her late father's San Francisco law firm. In addition, the pseudo-psychic detective show Psych returns this week, and the legal dramedy Suits is back this summer. Watch full episodes from its first season here.

A Museum For the Mob

Las Vegas offers a museum you can't resist. More here from the New York Times.

Forensics in the Media

Found recently while searching the net:

Michael J. Watkins, Forensics in the Media; Have attorneys reacted to the growing popularity of forensic crime dramas? (Florida State University, 2004).

Law, Crime, and the Victorian Poor

Rebecaa Probert, University of Warwick School of Law, has published ‘A Banbury Story: Cohabitation and Marriage Among the Victorian Poor in Notorious Neithrop’ as Warwick School of Law Research Paper No. 2012/01. Here is the abstract.

The parish of Neithrop, now a suburb of Banbury, was known in the nineteenth century as a place ‘inhabited by the poor and persons of bad character’ and, according to the demographer Peter Laslett, was an area ‘notorious’ for non-marital arrangements. Drawn to investigate further by the tragic story of Susan Owen, allegedly murdered by the man she was living, ‘Badger’ Willson, and by the suggestion that five out of a row of eight houses were inhabited by cohabiting couples, I discovered a very different picture. Not only did it turn out that neither of these specific claims was true, but the high rate of marriage among Neithrop couples also cast doubt on the widespread assumption that cohabitation was common among the Victorian poor.

Download the paper from SSRN at the link.